robinhoustonDoes this really work? I wish I had known when I were younger.
Richard Penner@robinhouston And are we to believe Buckminster Fuller was always talking about his large balls?
RobJLow@robinhouston That article also claims Penrose's doctoral thesis was on theoretical physics, but it was on algebraic geometry. 🤷
@RobJLow Interesting. Is that error in the book under review, I wonder, or was it introduced by the reviewer?
@robinhouston No idea about that, alas, I just happened to know about the thesis.
@RobJLow FWIW the book has it right, so the error must be the reviewer's.
@robinhouston A relief, because it would have been very worrying if the biographer got that wrong. But then you worry about how reliable the review is in other respects. (Which wouldn't be a problem if it couldn't affect the livelihood/reputation of the biographer....)
Colin Beveridge@robinhouston My experience was that it only ever led to platonic friendships.
Tim Crumpton
Refurio AnachroI recently made a shader to illustrate the complex square function using a camera:
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/scsGDH
The line goes like this: "can we make fractals using a video loop? Look at this!" and I would hold my phone at them, showing their face gruesomely distorted and duplicated... And then, after remarking that they can see everything twice, I'd ask them to go to the restroom with me, because I'd like to show them something in the mirror...
I have actually tried this in bars. It was a lot of fun. I didn't get into trouble, because I'm a nice guy, ymmv.